Master conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner on the earthly and heavenly Johann Sebastian Bach. Conductor, scholar, and famed interpreter of Baroque music Sir John Eliot Gardiner (Matthias Baus). The ...

Johann Sebastian Bach mastered a stunning variety of musical forms: works for solo instruments, chamber pieces, vocal music, concerti and music for the orchestra. Yet his overlooked choral music may ...

In his 40-year career, the conductor John Eliot Gardiner has traversed every era of classical music. He began in what is known as “early music”, with electrifying performances of composers such as ...

The conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner's self-produced recording of Bach cantatas has won record of the year at the annual Gramophone awards, it was announced this afternoon. The win takes his total ...

The best-known painting of the German composer – formerly in the possession of a US philanthropist – is to return to the city that Bach made his home “Bach is Coming Home!” For once a press release ...

Sir John Eliot Gardiner could easily divide his professional career into "before BCP" and after "BCP." At the close of the 20th Century, Gardiner began the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage with the bulk of the ...

It never happens often enough, but now and then, a subject gets the book it deserves. So it is with John Eliot Gardiner’s Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven, a biography so thoughtful, ...

In his 40-year career, John Eliot Gardiner has traversed every era of classical music. He began in early music, with electrifying performances of composers such as Monteverdi, Handel, Rameau and ...

Sir John Eliot Gardiner will celebrate his 70th birthday next year with a mammoth 12-hour Bach Marathon at London's Royal Albert Hall. Held on April 1, 2013, the Easter Monday event will open and ...

Johann Sebastian Bach lost both of his parents when he was nine and watched ten of his children die young. He was, in other words, well acquainted with death, and may have been uncommonly sensitive to ...

There are a dozen reasons why Bach: Music In The Castle Of Heaven is an important addition to the J.S. Bach bibliography, several being associated with its author, Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Gardiner is ...